The movie will follow “a mute bartender (Skarsgard) in Berlin, 40 years in the future in what has become a roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West.”

Alex‘s character “will be looking for a woman who has disappeared – and when his search takes him deep into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue,” according to Variety.

Mute will be directed by Duncan Jones, who is best known for his movies Warcraft, Source Code, and Moon.